Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 29

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This is a list of selected October 29 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
539 BCCyrus the Great captured Babylon, incorporating the Neo-Babylonian Empire and making the Achaemenid Empire the largest in history at that time. Lots of cn
1268Conradin, the last Duke of Swabia, was beheaded in Naples after failing to reclaim Sicily for the House of Hohenstaufen from Charles of Anjou. needs more footnotes
1618 – English courtier and explorer Sir Walter Raleigh was executed in London after King James I reinstated a fifteen-year-old death sentence against him. Refimprove
1787Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, based on Don Juan, the legendary fictional libertine, premiered at the Estates Theatre in Prague. Too much uncited
1917 – The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparing for and carrying out the Russian Revolution, was established. date note cited
1956 – The Suez Crisis began with Israel invading the Sinai Peninsula and pushing Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal. globalize, neutrality disputed
1969 – A student at UCLA sent the first message on the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute. Refimprove
1998 – The Truth and Reconciliation Commission presented its report on apartheid in South Africa, condemning both the government and the African National Congress for committing atrocities. refimprove
2004 – Representatives of the member states of the European Union signed the European Constitution in Rome]], although it failed to be ratified. refimprove
2005Three explosions in Delhi, India, killed 62 people and injured at least 210 others. unreferenced section
2015 – China announced the abolition of its one-child policy, allowing families to have two children instead. trivial pop culture references
Harriet Powers |b|1837 lots of CN tags (10)
Narcisa de León |b|1877| Birthday not cited, refs missing page numbers

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October 29: Republic Day in Turkey (1923)

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